Are We the Real "Guinea-pigs"?

INTRODUCTION: Drugs and other Medical Treatments Injure and Kill Millions of People:

In 2004 a team of scientists reported: "A definitive review and
close reading of medical peer-review journals, and government
health statistics shows that American medicine frequently causes
more harm than good... The total number of iatrogenic deaths
[deaths from medical treatment]... is 783,936 [people per year in the USA]. It is evident that the
American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury
in the United States." (Full article here)

Similarly, in 1994 a study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association
reported that modern medicine causes 180,000 deaths each year in
the USA. (1) Most of these are caused by prescribed pharmaceutical
drugs.

A 1998 study in the Journal of the American Medical
Association stated that in 1994 in the USA, "2,216,000 hospitalized
patients had serious Adverse Drug Reactions and 106,000 had fatal Adverse
Drug Reactions, making these reactions between the fourth and sixth
leading cause of death." (2)

In other words, modern medicine is officially
considered to be a leading cause of death...

Myths of Modern Medicine: The Increase in the Human Life Span - due to Medicine or Political Social Reforms? This article explains that the great increase in human life span in the developed world (during the 19th and 20th centuries) was due to political social reforms like better sanitation systems and improved hygiene and nutrition. It was not due to pharmaceutical drugs or other medical interventions.

Doctors Against Vivisection on Scientific & Medical Grounds (vivisection = animal research, animal experiments, animals testing
on live animals or humans). These doctors explain that vivisection is misleading and very damaging to human medicine. Furthermore, that it is not done for science but for commercial reasons to help insure companies against law suits from humans who are damaged by medical treatment.

A History of Western Medicine: From ancient Greece to modern times ... a summary of how human medicine: i) progressed due to scientific clinical observations of humans; and ii) was stalled and led astray for millenia due to misleading results from vivisection ... excerpts from a book by the medical historian Hans Ruesch.

Myths of Modern Medicine: The Decline of the Infectious Diseaseshappened before commercial vaccines, immunisations and drugs were develeped for them. This page contains numerous graphs and diagrams that illustrate the statistics and trends.